International

09-03-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ KARACHI: On the night of December 26, 2001, Mohammad Abdul Hai boarded a train from Jodhpur in northwestern India’s Rajasthan state to Surat city in neighboring Gujarat to attend a three-day seminar on Muslim education. The seminar was organized by the All India Minority Education …

09-03-2021 Bureau Report MELBOURNE: The Australian state of Victoria has announced an inquiry into the impact of colonization on Aboriginal people, the first probe of its kind nationally. Aboriginal Australians were dispossessed of their land after British settlement in 1788 and have since endured systemic injustices. Unlike some other Commonwealth …

09-03-2021 BEIJING: In a first, China on Monday launched a health certificate program, or a virus passport, for domestic travelers taking the lead in calls for such an initiative. The digital certificate, which shows a user’s vaccination status and virus test results, is available for Chinese citizens via a program …

09-03-2021 MINNEAPOLIS: A few hundred demonstrators gathered on Monday outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, where the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, charged in the death of George Floyd, is set to begin this month. Many protesters expressed anxiety about whether Chauvin would be convicted in …

08-03-2021 LONDON/ PARIS/ NEW YORK/ CANBERRA/ ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Change comes from challenge and that is the message organizers of International Women’s Day 2021 hope to trumpet Monday. “A challenged world is an alert world,” the International Women’s Day website says. “We can all choose to challenge and call out gender …

08-03-2021 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report RAWALPINDI/ ISLAMABAD/ KABUL/ DOHA/ WASHINGTON: Pakistani Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday met US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and General Austin Scott Miller, the Commander Resolute Support Mission Afghanistan, at the General Headquarters. According to …

08-03-2021 LONDON: The allegation that there were discussions in the palace about how dark Meghan’s first baby might be is a devastating one. This is heading into ‘worst-case scenario’ territory for the palace. It is worth remembering we are currently only getting one side of the story. And Meghan has …

08-03-2021 BERN: Swiss voters have narrowly approved a proposal to ban face coverings in a decision that critics branded Islamophobic and sexist. Official results showed that 51.2 percent of voters, and a majority of federal Switzerland’s cantons, supported the proposal. Some 1,426,992 voters were in favour of the ban, while …

07-03-2021 RIYADH/ SANA’A: The Saudi-led coalition engaged in Yemen said on Sunday it had destroyed 10 armed drones launched by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement, including at least five fired towards Saudi Arabia, state television channels reported. The coalition did not specify locations in the kingdom but said the drones were …

07-03-2021 DAMASCUS/ SANA’A/ DUBAI: Fierce fighting between Yemeni pro-government forces and Iran-backed Huthi rebels has killed at least 90 more Shia on both sides in the past 24 hours, government military sources said on Saturday. The Shiite rebels launched an offensive last month to seize Marib, the last stronghold in …